DOI Heft:
No. 323 (February 1920)
DOI Artikel:Fletcher, John Gould: The drawings of Jean de Bosschère
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21359#0205
THE DRAWINGS. OF JEAN DE BOSSCHERE
"THE QUARREL." BY
JEAN DE BOSSCHERE
(From “ Beasts and Men ”)
in its love of the grotesque, its humanity.
And its western ancestry is amply proven
by such pictures as the Sea-Monsters and
the Fisherman, which is a wild blend of
Hieronymus Bosch, Callot, Breughel,
Khnopff, a suggestion almost of Rops,
and perhaps the slightest dig at Meunier.
t. Especially rich in their satiric power
are the drawings in “ Beasts and Men."
Here, on page after page, we are given a
series of beasts, or semi-bestial figures,
like Sponsken and the Giant, who are more
human than the people one meets every
day in the street. What more pathetic
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"THE QUARREL." BY
JEAN DE BOSSCHERE
(From “ Beasts and Men ”)
in its love of the grotesque, its humanity.
And its western ancestry is amply proven
by such pictures as the Sea-Monsters and
the Fisherman, which is a wild blend of
Hieronymus Bosch, Callot, Breughel,
Khnopff, a suggestion almost of Rops,
and perhaps the slightest dig at Meunier.
t. Especially rich in their satiric power
are the drawings in “ Beasts and Men."
Here, on page after page, we are given a
series of beasts, or semi-bestial figures,
like Sponsken and the Giant, who are more
human than the people one meets every
day in the street. What more pathetic
199